I spent yesterday cleaning out the muddy pens after another series of severe storms swept through and made everything mucky and stinky........ide piled the shadecloth out of the way over an old table frame , went to get fresh straw and returned to find the little fluff butts clambering all over it - so cute

They're hard not to love aren't they? My first chooks were a bunch of Heinz 57 mixed-bred layers known as the Motley Crew. One of them eventually died and I acquired a Pekin pullet to replace her. I loved her friendly personality and gentle ways. I was hooked instantly and it all went downhill from there.

Its a slippery slope...... Whats really good about them too, is the other half is just as entranced .......he loves how they mob him when he goes out to the pen and get under his feet.... he's already asked when am i going to start hatching chicks as he wants to see more of them scratching in his veggie garden ( havent told him ive already put 10 eggs under a handy broody )

More rain predicted today I think. It's a fulltime job taming vines here at the moment.

I hear you Cackles - our veggie patch is seriously overgrown....tomato vines running wild , and the caterpillars and grasshoppers are having a field day.....maybe we have a shortage of ducks here too.....

Hehe - we have a resident pair of wild pacific black ducks , but they have zero interest in the veggie garden pests ...much prefer to hassle the chooks off their food when i let them out to free range.

Look whos turned broody ; Miss Pekin is sitting on 8 fertile eggs (there were 10 but 2 were clears when i candled) , they are due in 10 days time - love how the rooster sits on the rim of the nest box with her for most of the day. He is a most attentive little fella

They do have a beautiful "calm" nature & are quite happy to be petted. I would love some more too. I'm intrigued that the rooster stays with her that long. Our backyard is seriously overgrown with weeds; I could do with a break from the rain for a while but I really shouldn't "wish" that.

My Pekin roosters like to check on their girls when they are laying or broody, although having a flock of half a dozen each they don't sit with the one hen all day. They are quite attentive though, and will enthusiastically take up the "I laid an egg!" song when one of their hens starts announcing her achievement to the world.

Today i got stuck into the garden , after all the rain the weeds had really taken a hold......a 3 feet high hold , so pulled them all out (hard work yanking on meter high paspalum) , took the load over to the weed compost pile, and came back to find the pekins very happily ensconced in the crumbly dirt and squashing the dahlias and daylilys ..cheeky little things

One upside , they discovered a green ant nest and demolished it ...good little birds

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